On Disney, I reccommend Richard Schickel's old but extermely insightful book, "The Disney Version." I've always found Disney both vulgar and oddly disturbing, and I hate the way he cheapened his source materials. (My GOD, look at what he did to poor A.A. Milne!)Schickel really gets inside the Disney aesthetic, if you please, and sort of does to Walt what Nietzsche did to Wagner. Very much worth reading.
I always preferred Warner Bros. to Disney, though I recall one hilarious Donald Duck/Professor Von Drake short ("Man is his own Worst Enemy") with great fondness.
Since I don't really give a damn about Winnie the Pooh (and neither, for most of his life, did A.A. Milne), I'd say I'm generally happy with what they make of their source material if only they'd lay off the moral dualism and-as with Pinocchio-let more villains get away with it. It would prepare children for what it's like in real life.
Jesus, when you think about it Pinnochio was a pretty disturbing movie. And Disney always did have its dark side, according to them Hitler was a chubby chaser.
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I always preferred Warner Bros. to Disney, though I recall one hilarious Donald Duck/Professor Von Drake short ("Man is his own Worst Enemy") with great fondness.
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I'm interested in the Schickel book, but from what I've heard, not all of it is that accurate.
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As an artistic critique of Disney's work, however, I think the book is valid.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXGz3dVi-vk&search=education%20for%20death
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